Re: AT&T is now pushing JB update OTA...

Re: AT&T is now pushing JB update OTA...

Originally Posted by ChiefGeek1

Interested in your battery life on this update. Mine is worse then on 4.0.4.

I have an 4000mAh extended battery. My phone is idle when I'm at work so I'll use that as a baseline. No WIFI, usually 2-3 bars 4G but occasionally it'll detect strong enough LTE to switch to LTE at 1-bar. GSAM under ICS typically estimated 150-160 hrs under these conditions. This afternoon, GSAM under JB estimated 202 hrs. I'd never a 200+ hr estimate before.

That said, this morning gsiff_daemon went ape and drained 20% of the battery between the time I woke up and the time I got to work. I hadn't had a gsiff_daemon incident since around September/Oct timeframe so I hope that doesn't bode ill for JB.

Funny thing is though, I've been getting some odd black screens, that last for a second or two, and that seem to be occurring more frequently of late. Then once last week, every icon on every home screen vanished; there was nothing except five completely blank TouchWiz home screens....until I locked & unlocked the display

So, to make a boring story short, I've been wonderin' if the OTA was gonna be coming along soon.

Re: AT&T is now pushing JB update OTA...

Agree that it makes no sense. But it's the truth.
But the two (2) ATT reps both said they never had heard of Jelly Bean - or Kies.

Originally Posted by Kelly Kearns

I could understand Kies if they didn't own Samsung phones, but not Jelly Bean. They have no business being AT&T reps.

Same here. Went into our local AT&T Corp. store, (a large one, in fact) and while talking to a lady AT&T rep. about their high Samsung phone prices in comparison to Best Buy, Sams, Radio Shack, etc. I mentioned Kies and Jelly Bean. She said "What is Kies?" . . . and, she knew nothing about Jelly Bean, let alone anything about pending updates.

So, what's the latest? Is the JB OTA supposed to be happening everywhere in the U.S.? Coz I haven't seen anything yet, in my notifications.
Btw, w/ AT&T.

Re: AT&T is now pushing JB update OTA...

Originally Posted by winmod21

Same here. Went into our local AT&T Corp. store, (a large one, in fact) and while talking to a lady AT&T rep. about their high Samsung phone prices in comparison to Best Buy, Sams, Radio Shack, etc. I mentioned Kies and Jelly Bean. She said "What is Kies?" . . . and, she knew nothing about Jelly Bean, let alone anything about pending updates.

So, what's the latest? Is the JB OTA supposed to be happening everywhere in the U.S.? Coz I haven't seen anything yet, in my notifications.
Btw, w/ AT&T.

That is NUTS they don't know about Jelly Bean. Do they have only "apple fan" employees there? My local store, which isn't the huge main one here, they are all up to date on all the phones, Apple, Android and Windows phones. One that uses only HTC phones probably has never heard of Kies, but at least they are up to date on the OS of the various phones.

As far as I know it is..you can always do a "check for updates" but don't get into the thing that many of the Note 2 people did a couple of weeks ago. They were bumping up their dates on their phone, to try and force it to show up, the AT&T servers seem to pick up on that and instead of telling them they could check for new updates in 24 hours, people were getting like 170 days, etc. Last I heard, AT&T said they had no way to correct, or maybe they refused and just said they couldn't and people would NOT get their update until that time was up. It will let you check once every 24 hours without a problem.

Re: AT&T is now pushing JB update OTA...

Originally Posted by Kelly Kearns

That is NUTS they don't know about Jelly Bean. Do they have only "apple fan" employees there? My local store, which isn't the huge main one here, they are all up to date on all the phones, Apple, Android and Windows phones. One that uses only HTC phones probably has never heard of Kies, but at least they are up to date on the OS of the various phones.

As far as I know it is..you can always do a "check for updates" but don't get into the thing that many of the Note 2 people did a couple of weeks ago. They were bumping up their dates on their phone, to try and force it to show up, the AT&T servers seem to pick up on that and instead of telling them they could check for new updates in 24 hours, people were getting like 170 days, etc. Last I heard, AT&T said they had no way to correct, or maybe they refused and just said they couldn't and people would NOT get their update until that time was up. It will let you check once every 24 hours without a problem.

How were they "bumping up their dates" on their phones? How would you do that? Could I accidentally do that? What does that mean? Sorry for all the questions.

Btw, I haven't checked on the "check for updates" yet, coz I haven't done the factory reset yet, that you & others have suggested doing before and after updating. Been meaning to, but got tired of trying to figure-out what file management app to choose, a few weeks ago, and then forgot about it all. Actually, until recently, my ICS has been running great. Don't know if you saw that post I made about recently getting some weird black screens, and then five home screens with NO apps anywhere just five empty TW live wallpaper screens?

Re: AT&T is now pushing JB update OTA...

Originally Posted by k6rim

Fortunately, the Samsung page is WRONG.
I am downloading the (presumably) JB update right now. (354.64 MB)
Hopefully, it will be a worthwhile update without major bugs.
ATT must think so, since it (finally) has made it available OTA. About time .............

Samsung isn't wrong.. It was available on Kias.. Att just started the OTA.

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Originally Posted by winmod21

How were they "bumping up their dates" on their phones? How would you do that? Could I accidentally do that? What does that mean? Sorry for all the questions.

Btw, I haven't checked on the "check for updates" yet, coz I haven't done the factory reset yet, that you & others have suggested doing before and after updating. Been meaning to, but got tired of trying to figure-out what file management app to choose, a few weeks ago, and then forgot about it all. Actually, until recently, my ICS has been running great. Don't know if you saw that post I made about recently getting some weird black screens, and then five home screens with NO apps anywhere just five empty TW live wallpaper screens?

If you go to your time and date settings and take it off automatic, you can set it to any time and date you want.

Seems like I have read before about some people with an S3 having these issues of a black screen, like it was some kind of freezing almost. I can't remember now where I saw that and if JB update took care of it or if there was something else that did. One thing, I just automatically cut off my phone for at least 1 min (not just restart) every couple of days, even though it is supposed to handle RAM well. Also, I've been having some issues with chrome lately, just finally removed it, but if there was an app you were using when or right before this happened and you remember, you might want to go into app management and go to the app and just clear the cache for that app.

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Seriously we are going to argue about this? smh

No, Samsung was not wrong, AT&T was clear they were NOT going to release it OTA. They were COVERED UP with calls with people having Kies issues back when it was released and seems they changed their minds and did pretty quickly, because as I said, the "ICU" techs and those way above Tier 3, had no idea that JB was coming out OTA. They had been told always, no OTA release.

But seriously, does it actually MATTER?

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Originally Posted by Almeuit

att could have said we won't do OTA then changed their minds On Samsung.

I think Verizon was OTA and I know Sprint was as well.. So i would assume that's why Samsung said that for ATT. Unless that is under all of the carriers then yeah they are completely wrong lol.

Seems like I have read before about some people with an S3 having these issues of a black screen, like it was some kind of freezing almost. I can't remember now where I saw that and if JB update took care of it or if there was something else that did. One thing, I just automatically cut off my phone for at least 1 min (not just restart) every couple of days, even though it is supposed to handle RAM well. Also, I've been having some issues with chrome lately, just finally removed it, but if there was an app you were using when or right before this happened and you remember, you might want to go into app management and go to the app and just clear the cache for that app.

Yeah, seems like I read about the same thing regarding the black screen, but can't remember where I saw it either. I suppose I could do a search, if I felt energetic enough.
My BS (that's: black screen, of course) issue did start after I updated Rocket Player & Classic Notes. And tbh, I forgot you could roll-back updates, until I read yours and someone else's posts up above.

And thanks for the reminder, Kelly. I forgot about the old 'clear the cache' ploy!

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Nope, in my experience, with each upgrade, Samsung always ends up removing something from the toggle that people use all the time, did it with Froyo to Gingerbread also.

One thing you can do it get a "toggle bar" and it will show up in the pull down shade, right under "on going". Someone had one, don't even know the name for it, but I'm sure there are tons in the play store. I had one with my old phone with gingerbread and had it at the top of my 2nd screen, don't even know if it had an option to show up in the notification shade or not. If you search for "notification widget" or "toggle widget" in the Play Store, then you can probably find one of several or start a new thread asking if anyone knows of a toggle widget that will show in the notification shade. I'm sure there are many that have them or know of some.

The one I remember seeing on the screenshot, was white in the pulldown shade.